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Title: Mic Macs à Tire-Larigot (2009)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Dany Boon | ... | Bazil | |
| André Dussollier | ... | Nicolas Thibault de Fenouillet | |
| Yolande Moreau | ... | Tambouille | |
| Dominique Pinon | ... | Fracasse | |
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Marie-Julie Baup | ... | Calculette |
| Michel Crémadès | ... | Petit Pierre | |
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Nicolas Marié | ... | François Marconi |
| Julie Ferrier | ... | La Môme Caoutchouc | |
| Omar Sy | ... | Remington | |
| Jean-Pierre Marielle | ... | Placard | |
| Urbain Cancelier | ... | Le gardien de nuit de Marconi | |
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Patrick Paroux | ... | Gerbaud |
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Jean-Pierre Becker | ... | Libarski |
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Stéphane Butet | ... | Matéo |
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Philippe Girard | ... | Gravier |
Avid movie-watcher and video store clerk Bazil has had his life all but ruined by weapons of war. His father was killed by a landmine in Morocco and one fateful night a stray bullet from a nearby shootout embeds itself in his skull, leaving him on the verge of instantaneous death. Losing his job and his home, Bazil wanders the streets until he meets Slammer, a pardoned convict who introduces him to a band of eccentric junkyard dealers including Calculator, a math expert and statistician, Buster, a record-holder in human cannonball feats, Tiny Pete, an artistic craftsman of automatons, and Elastic Girl, a sassy contortionist. When chance reveals to Bazil the two weapons manufacturers responsible for building the instruments of his destruction, he constructs a complex scheme for revenge that his newfound family is all too happy to help set in motion. Written by The Massie Twins
Jean-Paul Jeunet, director of "Amélie" and "A Very Long Engagement" returns with "Micmacs", the story of a lonely misfit named Bazil (Dany Boon), who after being accidentally injured in a shoot-out, is adopted by a band of other misfits. Together, they take on a band of arms-manufacturers whose products respectively injured Bazil and killed Bazil's father, by triggering tension between them.
As with previous films, Jeunet has produced a world of slightly-distorted reality, much like a dream. Although it does begin somewhat slowly, this is hardly a flaw, and the eventual escalation of the tension between the two forces of evil is truly winning. The ending, which I won't elaborate upon, is also delightfully funny.
There is one slight issue that I did have, which is not too big and actually has little to do with the film itself, but is still worthy of mention. As someone with a degree in French, I did find that the English subtitles were in some scenes passable yet not excellent replications of the original. Equally, I found it quite annoying that the subtitles provided in the British cinema version were clearly done for American audiences. I have nothing against American English, but it would have been nice for us over here in the UK to have had our own subtitles as opposed to a loan of the American ones. Yet enough with that groaning; "Micmacs" is a great near-perfect little film and I can recommend it wholeheartedly.